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Seasick & Singlehanding

12K views 98 replies 28 participants last post by  daydream sailor 
#1 ·
Ahoi All -just wondering, what do you do when you're singlehanding out at sea and you get seasick? Anone had this experience.
 
#68 ·
My crew - I don't want weed-heads, crack-heads, nut cases or psycos. I want someone that knows what they're doing at all times - sick or not. And that goes for onshore as well as offshore. Weed-heads and crack-heads, IMHO, don't have enough common sense to hit themselves in the a$$ with both hands let alone man a helm or tiller. I don't want to put my well being in the hands of someone that don't know what zip code they're in, and anyone that does is a damned fool.

Medical grade pot does a wonderful job for those that have to undergo the horror of chemotherapy. Someone that smokes pot just to get stoned, well, IMO they shouldn't be doing anything more mind challenging than sitting upright in a chair.
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Too funny this
Just because his mind reacts to pot in any certain manner means that ALL minds react in the same manner.
My advice to him would be avoid the weed boy, your mind ain't built for it.
 
#72 · (Edited)
kjango-
"Is there a prejudice against singlehanding that I am unaware of ??? " Prejudice implies many things including being groundless. Many of us have nothing against singlehanding--within limits. But if you're doing it for more than one long day or night, then you are probably going to need sleep, which leaves the vessel without a watch, in violation of COLREGS, and being operated by someone who is now going to be suffering from sleep deprivation and fatigue, both of which are proven to cause error rates and accident rates to skyrocket. So singlehanding in passagemaking? Pretty much fits the legal standards of grossly irresponsible, even if superman thinks otherwise.
There may be reasons to do it, and places where it can be done nmore or less safely, but there are also enough reports of singlehanders going up on reefs and rocks because, oops, they just overslept when fatigue kicked in.
Prejudice? No. Sound logic and a preference for vessels with a more adequate watch.

Gary-
You've obviously never spent quality time with stoners. The thought of a stoner even attempting to sit UPRIGHT in a chair instead of slouching down and relaxing in it...What next, you'll be doing the Lay's potato chip test? "Bet you can't eat just one!" The stoner will have the advantage on that one, they can count to "one" repeatedly with no memory that they've already done that.<G>
No, I don't want stoners, drunks, supermen, or folks experiencing radical side effects from prescrption drugs on the helm. Offwatch...a different standard applies.

And of course speaking of drugs, when I'm on scop I give clear notice to all that I may literally become a pyschotic axe murderer, but at least I won't be seasick. Yes, scop can do that while it blows out your eyesight and interrupts your heart rhythm. But given those choices versus being horribly seasick...everyone seems to agree an axe murderer on board isn't a lot worry about. :)
 
#73 ·
Well we are speaking of people who Lord knows by what means they may use and being so how many others may or may be "acceptable" in whatever plans they might have drawn. I mean lets be real here, doctors don't put NORMAL people onto a heavy hitting happy pill (floods the brain with serotonin) unless there is a serious ditch on the road to be recond with right? I mean look at how this med works,,,,,,might as well have a meth addict at the helm.
 
#78 ·
Show me our papers and your log <<<<schnell<<<<<<<<\
now pee in the cup now!!!! Schnell schnel>
\has that child been single handling that dink by him/herself?
They must pee into this cup and show us their papers now!
Where are the parents? I want them schnell!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
#79 ·
Mocking your user name? Please spare me????????????????????
However waking up in a hove to situation to the smell of burning self tailing winch and the sight of a body strangled form the mast head ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
If you people want to trash pot heads then do "ahead" DO IT!
Your self serving need to justify the immense prison population and the taxpayer's expenditure on is well noted.
Just CALL THE COPS!
Good Lord,,,,,if all I had to worry about was some pot head steering a boat my own sleep would go much better.
Get a LIFE!
 
#81 ·
Hello Sailor
Got it....we all need sleep . I single hand a lot . I have an anchor....I sleep . I worry just as much about grounding & traffic as anyone . &&&&&&&&&&&&&&.....given my choice of singlehanding or having Melee401 on the same boat as myself ???? Yikes !!!! lmao

Melee401
Next time you have a thought.....let it go....lmao
 
#87 ·
ANother is peppermint. Not as good as ginger, but you can buy them cheap and they are a good distraction for kids.

Brian
What about sour balls? Do they still make them? That was what my Dad distracted me with on headboat fishing trips as a kid. I always look for them but never see them anymore . . ..
 
#94 ·
Actually folks its not so much the drug or alcohol induced ramblings that are the problem ... its the incoherence that so often accompanies.

I'd certainly not be very happy single handing if I suffered from chronic sea sickness. I find the idea of that utterly apalling. Otoh I only ever get a touch of the hueys if I go to sea on an empty stomach or, I must admit, if I have a mongrel of a hangover.
 
#96 ·
The biggest deterrent to drinking and sailing singlehanded is the mere thought of having to sail the next day with a hangover. One beer...that's it....well maybe two...:D
 
#97 ·
You may not die but you will feel like you will.

I keep ginger root in the boat because sometimes I do get seasick for some odd reason.l

Chew and a bit of ginger and drink water...it will pass. I used to drink gingerale but a doctor friend told me the carbonation just prolonged the problem

hope this works for you too. I also have anchored and put my bc and just floated in the water. That generally works fairly fast for me too.
 
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